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Smetana: The Secret (Tajemství)
Jan Chalupecky; Ondřej Havelka; Prague National Theatre Opera; Martin Černý; Barbora Maleninská; Prague National Theatre Orchestra; Prague National Theatre Chorus
PragueBeethoven: Symphony no. 9
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 in D minor "Choral", Op.125
Czech Philharmonic; Lukáš Vasilek; Miriam Kutrowatz; Lucie Hilscherová; Norbert Ernst; Alexander Grassauer
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Janáček
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava; David Robertson; Kateřina Kněžíková; Lucie Hilscherová; Pavol Breslik; Jan Martiník
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An ambitious update of Dialogues of the Carmelites in Prague
Barbora Horáková’s new staging of Poulenc’s historic tragedy hits hard at the Prague State Opera, but it never quite reaches its goal.
An audacious update of a Dvořák classic in Prague
Directors Martin Kukučka and Lukáš Trpišovský, who work together as SKUTR, take on Dvořák’s Rusalka with a surfeit of ideas.
At Prague’s National Theatre, a witty, well-kept Smetana Secret
Aided by spirited singers and enthusiastic musicians, director Ondřej Havelka brings an imaginative, ironic touch to a lesser-known Smetana opera.
Prague Spring closes with a class act
Conductor Christoph Eschenbach brings style and sophistication to a freewheeling finale to this year's festival, ending with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Slavic homelands: Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic in Edinburgh
Festive Dvořák, intense Martinů with Katia and Marielle Labèque, and an awesome performance of Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Slava! The Czech Phil and Bychkov glory in Dvořák and Janáček
There could be no more appropriate choice than the Glagolitic Mass, with its text of Old Church Slavonic, for a concert which Bychkov had dedicated to the people of Ukraine.